From Headquarters (Warner Bros., 1933) (1933)

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your Ist story ‘From Headquarters’ Goes Behind Scenes in Crime Detection A revelation of the inner workings of a metropolitan police force in tracking criminals is made in the Warner Bros. newest murder mystery drama, “From Headquarters,’ featuring George Brent and Margaret Lindsay, which comes ta the Theatre on The story opens with the murder of a millionaire Broadway play-boy and follows the search for the slay: er through scientific investigations at police headquarters from the finger printing of suspects to their | inquisition in the darkened third degree room. The mystery is made doubly baff ling through a second murder which takes place under the very noses of the police at Headquarters, presumably to cover up the first crime. Investigation reveals that the slain playboy has been involved ‘n many blackmail plots as well as in clandestine love affairs, which opens the door to a number of suspects. | The man hunt is largely carried on by George Brent in the role of a highly intelligent and scientifie police lieutenant and Eugene Pallette, a vain and blundering police official who nevertheless, has an instinct for detecting erime. Margaret Lindsay, in the role of a beautiful and popular show girl, is one of the suspects, as is also the slain man’s enamorata and three men, one engaged with him in the blackmail schemes. The suspects are eliminated one after the other until the. real assassin is found. The plot is said not only to be one of the most baffling and thrilling of murder mystery pictures, but it is set in the colorful background of police headquarters, showing modern implements used in the detection of criminals, the radio and teletype rooms, the chemical laboratory, where stains are tested to determine whether or not they are human blood, the booking room, the bull pen, prison cells, and offices of detectives and executives. Experts working with microscopes, retorts and their attendant chemicals are shown making scientific investigations in the most modern method of solving crime. The picture is not without its romantie angle with the lovers placed in a most unusual situation, the lieutenant investigating the crime having been the sweetheart of one of the girl suspects until her love had seemingly turned to the playboy later found slain. There is an unusually large and talented cast of players which in cludes besides those mentioned Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Barrat, Henry O’Neill, Ken Murray and Murray Kinnell. The picture was directed by William Dieterle. your 2nd story Hard Work and Many Parts Only Road To Stardom in Pictures Making a big splash in a single picture doesn’t make you a star— not any more. Time was, of course, when a single “hit” made your stardom secure enough so that you could play on for several years in indifferent pictures and indifferently well, and still get away with it. That time is gone forever. There are too many good actors and ac ublicity—Ad VANCE your 3rd story White Light Romance Flickers In Picture of Police Mysteries Romance is not usually emphasized strongly in the ordinary murder mystery drama, but it plays a vital part in the latest Warner Bros. picture, “From Headquarters,” which comes to the Theatre-0ne ae cerry 8 , with George Brent and Margaret Lindsay in the leading roles. While the sordid and secret love affairs of a millionaire Broadway playboy are the motivating causes of his being murdered, romance comes in through the love of a police lieutenant for a beautiful and popular show girl whose name has been linked with that of the slain man, George Brent as the young and intelligent police officer, has been the sweetheart of the show girl, a part played by Miss Lindsay, until she suddenly seems to grow eold to him and is seen in publie places with the man afterward murdered. The murder places the lieutenant in a strained position, for the woman he loves had been in the slain man’s apartment the night of the crime and is one of the suspects. Despite that fact the officer follows his line of duty and investigates every phase of the case relentlessly, and the love of the young couple is rekindled into a beautiful romance. How this dream of love returns is unfolded in the unravelling of the mystery which surrounds not only the killing ofthe playboy but of an innocent person at police headquarters. The picture is realistically presented in the screen play by Robert N. Lee and Peter Milne, who were former police reporters. Others in the cast in addition to the two leads include Eugene Pallette, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Bur gess, Theodore Newton, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Barrat and Henry O’Neill. William Dieterle directed. tresses to be had for nearly every picture. Margaret Lindsay, for example, is playing her first leading role in the Warner Bros. picture, “From Headquarters,” which comes to the Theatre 68 Se SSS She has equal billing with George Brent, it being a co-star picture. Yet this is the first picture in which Margaret has been co-starred, in spite of the fact that she has been in Hollywood for something over a year, and was an outstanding hit in “Cavaleade”’—her very first picture! Meantime, working up to the point where she could be said definitely to have arrived, Miss Lindsay has played such roles as that opposite William Powell, the star of “Private Detective 62,” a role in “The World Changes” with Paul Muni, with Arliss in “Voltaire,” with Stanwyck in “Baby Face,” and in an important part with Leslie Howard in “Captured!” “From Headquarters,” however, marks her debut as a full fledged “lead.” The story is a baffling murder mystery, in which a second killing takes place right in police headquarters, while detectives are investigating several suspects. It reveals the inner workings of a metropolitan police in the detection of crime. Others in the cast include Eugene Pallette, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Barrat and Herbert O’Neill. Wm. Dieterle directed the picture from a _ screen play by Robert N. Lee and Peter Milne. Scientific Detectives at Work George Brent, Eugene Pallette and Henry O'Neill, modern sleuths, in a scene from “From Headquarters,” Warner Bros.’ gripping police story which shows for the first time how police headquarters solves crime by aid of scientific apparatus. The picture is due Mat No. 5 your 4th story Parts With a Punch Give Brent His Best Acting Opportunity Like William Powell, Adolphe Menjou and some others who could be named, George Brent has finally set his foot down on walk-through parts in which he could be considered only secondarily as an actor but was sure to be dubbed a “ladies’ man.” Powell, you'll remember, escaped from those effete ladies’ man parts into his long series of detective parts in the Philo Vance stories, the last of which is “The Kennel Murder Case.” Menjou took even more drastic remedy when he consented to play the hardest boiled city editor in the hardest boiled play in the world— that in “The Front Page”—of green memory. Brent followed Powell’s lead after his last picture with his wife, Ruth Chatterton, and secured for himself the role of “Lieutenant Stevens” in “From Headquarters,’ a Warner Bros. fast-action murder mystery which comes to the Theatre on See eer cee Pe ee RE It is the first picture he has made in which he was not cast primarily as a ladies’ man or the leading male player to a feminine star. In “From Headquarters” he is the police officer first and the lover afterwards, for he relentlessly investigates the woman he loves when the finger of suspicion points to her as the slayer of a millionaire Broadway playboy. The story is set in the colorful background of a metropolitan Police Headquarters and reveals the methods of the police in their search for criminals. Margaret Lindsay has the leading feminine role while others in the cast include Eugene Pallette, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton, Robert Barrat and Henry O’Neill. The sereen play was written by a couple of hard boiled police reporters, Robert N. Lee and Peter Milne, from an original story by Lee. William Dieterle directed it. at the ............ ; Price 10c¢ your 5th story Fans’ Acclaim Makes Gene Pallette Play Another ‘‘Dick’’ Role Eugene Pallette, who has the role of Seargeant Boggs in the Warner Bros. production, “From Headquarters,” which comes to the Pheatee 200A .chiedon.s ise A used to entertain a cordial dislike for detective roles. He’s changed his mind about them since his portrayal of Sergeant Heath in the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories earned him a long-term contract at one of the major studios. Prior to the making of “From Headquarters,” Pallette had played a “return engagement” with William Powell in “The Kennel Murder Case,” in his old favorite part of Sergeant Heath. Before that picture was completed, he had been east for “From Headquarters.” Pallette has won no inconsiderable fame as a cocksure blustering police official of the old school, who nevertheless has an unfailing memory for your 6th story His Own Life Fitted Brent for Star Role in New Police Drama George Brent, who plays his second detective story lead in Warner Bros.’ picture, “From Headquarters,” which comes to the Theatre on ..........: Bie oS , knows all about detectives from experience. As a young dispatch carrier for Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader, shortly after the World War, Brent had a price put on his head by the British Government and Scotland Yard was put on his trail. When Collins was finally ambushed and killed, Brent decided that his usefulness to the Irish cause was ended and that the proper place for him to be was back in the United States with the other members of his family. To escape his pursuers, Brent resorted to the oldest trick known to hunted men. He made for the enemy’s headquarters, going first from Ireland to Scotland and then into England. He hid in various hotels and rooming houses, moving when things go hot and eventually made a wild dash in a leaky motorboat for a tramp steamer just starting for America. In “From Headquarters,” however, he is the pursuer instead of the pursued. He plays the part of a highly intelligent and efficient police officer who solves crime by the most modern scientific methods. The screen play by Robert N. Lee and Peter Milne, based on Lee’s story, is a thrilling and baffling mystery of a double murder, one of which is committed under the very noses of the police at headquarters. Included in the cast with Brent are Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton, Robert Barrat and others. crooks and a natural instinct for the detection of crime. He plays this sort of police officer against George Brent in the role of Lieut. Stevens, highly intelligent and scientific investigator. “From Headquarters” is a double murder mystery, a killing taking place right in police headquarters while officers are grilling suspects in the slaying of a _ millionaire Broadway playboy. Revelations of police methods in detecting crime and hunting down criminals are made in the baffling screen play. Margaret Lindsay has the leading feminine role while others in the cast include Hugh Herbert Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Barrat, Henry O’Neill and Murray Kinnell. His Sweetheart’s Defender Fd George Brent as Police Lieutenant Stevens is counsel knows of the puzzling murder in “From quarters,” Warner Bros.’ police story which opens at the Theatre on Mat No. 2 ing his sweetheart, Margaret Lindsay to tell all she Head . Eugene Pallette is also featured. Price 10¢ Page Three